The fireside book of romance
By: edited by Edward Wagenknecht.
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Indianapolis; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 589
Subjects: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Invitation to romance; title: I. Far away and long ago: The wife of Bath's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer; title: How Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring / Maurice Hewlett; title: Story of a Piebald horse / W.H. Hudson; title: Blue cross / Lisa Ysaye Tarleau; title: Thirty clocks strike the hour / V. Sackville-West; title: II. Tales of adventure: Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott; title: The cheerful tortoise / James Norman Hall; title: The flying highwaymen / Lillian de la Torre; title: The army of shadows / Eric Ambler; title: The trail of the sandhill stag / Ernest Thompson Seton; title: III. The world within: The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf; title: The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield; title: The pardon / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; title: Thw wharf / Walter de la Mare; title: IV. Fantasy and the supernatural: Curious if true / Mrs. Gaskell; title: The wedding jest / James Branch Cabell; title: The marriage of the puppets / Robert Nathan; title: Ann Mellor's lover / Marjorie Bowen; title: The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire / Walter de la Mare; title: V. The romance of curious incident: The sire de Maletroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy; title: The two sisters of Cologne / Anonymous; title: The scoured silk / Joseph Shearing; title: VI. Aspects of the American dream: Endicott and the red cross / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Natchez / Joseph Hergesheimer; title: Smoke on the prairie / Conrad Richter; title: The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane; title: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck; title: VII. The way of a man with a maid: The coming of Pan / James Stephens; title: The lagoon / Joseph Conrad; title: Faithful Jenny Dove / Eleanor Farjeon; title: The three fates / Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Down bayou dubac / Barry Benefield; title: Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson; title: Sousa / Lisa Ysaye Tarleau; title: VIII. Romance still lives: The cherry tree / A.E. Coppard; title: A municipal report / O. Henry; title: The queen's twin / Sara Orne Jewett; title: Dark in the forest, strange as time / Thomas Wolfe; title: Half-holiday / Aldous Huxley; title: Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham; title: The big man / L.A.G. Strong.